A18 crash in East Lindsey on 10 September 1999 at 21:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A18 in East Lindsey at 21:20 on Friday 10 September 1999. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 1999
- Friday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43342, longitude -0.0672, in the LN11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199932C009339
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 18
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B1431 in East Lindsey, 16 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199032C023890
Serious
Honda CBR1000F crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 5 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199332C003793
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 25 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199532C007765
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 6 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199832C006108
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 10 July 2012
20 m awayRef 201232E186112
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A18 in East Lindsey, 26 November 2012
20 m awayRef 201232E361312
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199932C009339 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 1999.